Zakaria Mohieddin

Zakaria Abd al-Madschid Mohieddin ( Arabic زكريا عبد المجيد محيي الدين, DMG Zakariyā ʿAbd al-Maǧīd Muḥyī ad-Dīn ; * July 5, 1918 ; † May 15, 2012 ) was an Egyptian officer and politician .

Life

Zakaria Mohieddin was trained at the military academy from 1936 and met Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar as-Sadat for the first time in 1938 . From 1940 to 1943 he taught tactics at the officers' college, and also from 1950 to 1951, in 1951 and 1952 tactics for staff officers. He was stationed in Sudan with the Egyptian Army and became Chief of Staff of the First Brigade in 1948. In the Palestine War of 1948 he met Nasser again and was awarded the Mehmet Ali Order for bravery. From 1952 to 1956 he was head of the Egyptian secret service Jihaz al-Muchabarat al-Amma .

As a member of the Free Officers Movement led by Nasser, Mohieddin was Interior Minister from 1953 to 1958, again from 1961 to 1962, then Vice President from 1961 to 1968 and from 1965 to 1966 Interior Minister and Prime Minister in personal union. From 1952 to 1955 he was also responsible for the first Egyptian secret service. Gamal Abdel Nasser proposed him as his successor in 1967, but Mohieddin refused. In addition, he was a member of various organizations in Egypt (e.g. Arab Socialist Union , High Commissioner for the Aswan Dam ) and represented Egypt at several international conferences.

As leader of the national reformist wing of the Nasser regime, which advocated private capitalist development and rapprochement with conservative and western states, he was ousted from power in early 1968 in the purges following the defeat in the Six Day War . After Nasser's death, Mohieddin tried in vain on October 4, 1970, together with two other free officers of the former Revolutionary Council (Kamal ad-Din Hussein and Abd al-Latif Baghdadi) to impose "collective leadership" on interim president Sadat. Then he withdrew into private life.

literature

Zacharia Mohieddin , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1982 of 23 August 1982, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Zakaria Mohieddin - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Al-Ahram Weekly: All the revolution's men

Individual evidence

^ Lothar Rathmann : History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present , Volume 6, The struggle for the development path in the Arab world, pages 119 and 125. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1963.

personal data
SURNAME	Mohieddin, Zakaria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mohieddin, Zakaria Abd al-Madschid (full name); زكريا عبد المجيد محيي الدين (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 5, 1918
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 2012

[1] Lothar Rathmann : History of the Arabs - From the beginnings to the present , Volume 6, The struggle for the development path in the Arab world, pages 119 and 125. Akademie-Verlag Berlin 1963.